Re: iptables - ip_conntrack_max

[Angus D Madden <ii@took.ekilat.com>]

Gilberto Villani Brito, Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:23:22PM -0300: 
> Hi Debian users,
> I read this message:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2003/03/msg00011.html about
> ip_conntrack_max (iptables).  So I would like know how can I do to my
> debian put 5000 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max in the boot
> without use /etc/rc.boot/ ????
> 

add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:

net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max=5000


Note the default is 32760, so setting it to 5000 would decrease the max
number of connections.

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